I started off this Saturday with some positive, active, constructive plans, and the day began right with some eggs and potatoes and coffee. I read a chapter in a book I have been trying to get through- check. I looked forward to marking several other times off of my to-do list after that, and even considered another ride somewhere for some photography practice- and then I got hijacked again by the screen.

What started as an earnest attempt at rounding up some photos for a project early this afternoon became a full workday at the computer.

Exercise? Nope.

Camera practice? Nope.

Time outside? Nope.

Complete a larger to-do list for things I need to take care of the next few months? Nope.

Time with others? Nope.

Instead, it was time in backup drives, time in Lightroom, time looking up instructions on the web, time scale and shading and scaling and tweaking.

And, in the big scheme of things, the more important tasks in my life should be getting some order into it. Planning out time to exercise, and to shop. And to prepare for the coming spring and summer.

Prepare to use time wisely.

I will find a way to reclaim the better use of my time and life if I have to get rid of stuff in my life.

Because it has to be better and more than a life of sitting and staring at a screen.

I need to be serving some people, somewhere.

That needs to get on my longer to-do list.

When I get around to doing it.

Lord, help me to live tomorrow better.

I think I’ll go work on that list for a little bit before bedtime.